Samsung Mocks Apple’s Foldable as the Rivalry Moves to Social Media
Apple had barely finished talking about the iPhone 18 Pro when Samsung’s US arm posted on X: “So far, so same,” with a hashtag telling people it was time to…
Apple Splits Its iPhone Launch Into Two Seasons
The detail that analysts kept returning to on Wednesday was the phone that did not appear. Apple’s September 9 event introduced the iPhone 18 Pro, the Pro Max, and the…
Meta’s Muse App Climbs the US Charts as the Company Buys an AI Startup
Meta’s personal AI agent app reached second place on Apple’s US download charts within two days of launch, an early sign that the company’s push into standalone AI apps has…
Nasdaq Takes $100 Million Stake in Kraken’s Parent
The stock exchange and the crypto exchange are no longer just neighbors in the same sentence. Nasdaq said on Thursday that its venture arm will invest $100 million in Payward,…
Amazon Puts Its Ads Inside ChatGPT and Turns Prime Video Into a Store
Amazon made two moves on September 10 that push the same idea from opposite directions. It agreed to place advertisers’ campaigns inside ChatGPT, and it expanded the shopping features of…
OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into a Junior Analyst for Wall Street
OpenAI released on September 10 a version of ChatGPT built for finance, and it recruited two of the firms that will compete with it to help design the thing. ChatGPT…
OpenAI Halts New Sign-Ups for Its Priciest ChatGPT Tier
OpenAI stopped selling its most expensive consumer product on September 10. Thibault Sottiaux, the company’s product lead, announced on X that new subscriptions and upgrades to the $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro…
SpaceX Says Starship-Launched Satellites Will Start Paying Off This Month
The chief financial officer put a date on it. Bret Johnsen, SpaceX’s CFO, said Thursday that the company expects the first upgraded Starlink satellites launched aboard Starship to begin generating…
SpaceX Launches a Classified Space Force Mission From California
At 11:37 a.m. Eastern on September 10, a window opened over Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Within it, a Falcon 9 lifted off carrying USSF-153, a classified mission for…
Waymo Opens Its Robotaxis to Lyft Riders in Nashville
A rider in Nashville who opens the Lyft app and taps a destination may now find a car pulling up with no one behind the wheel. On September 9, Waymo’s…
